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Empire of Silver - Conn Iggulden

Empire of Silver
Conn Iggulden

Format: Hardback - Released: 02/09/2010
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September 2010 Book of the Month. Conn Iggulden knows his history and knows how to tell a great story. This is the fourth in the Conqueror series and sees the sons of Genghis...

The Waste Land - Simon Acland

The Waste Land
Simon Acland

Format: Paperback - Released: 10/06/2010
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September 2010 Debut of the Month. Set during the extraordinary historical events of the First Crusade this is an original and compelling debut full of mystery, betrayal, secrecy, romance, humour and suspense. Like...

Snobbery with Violence - M.C. Beaton

Snobbery with Violence
M.C. Beaton

Format: Paperback - Released: 26/08/2010
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This is the first in a great new series of Edwardian murder mysteries. Lady Rose Summers makes the perfect heroine and when her father brings in Captain Harry Cathcart to investigate her scoundrel of a fiancé it soon transpires it...

Wolf of the Plains - Conn Iggulden

Wolf of the Plains
Conn Iggulden

Format: Paperback - Released: 03/09/2007
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Author of the magnificent ‘Emperor’ series on Julius Caesar now turns his considerable talent to the life of Genghis Khan and his descendants. Another tale of high adventure, brutal times and ambitious people. Wonderful stuff with a lot of human...

Lords of the Bow - Conn Iggulden

Lords of the Bow
Conn Iggulden

Format: Paperback - Released: 08/07/2010
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The follow up to Wolf of the Plains following the life of Genghis Khan as he matures from the young warrior of the previous book to the great conqueror he must become. A powerful and fascinating story of a mesmerising historical...

Confessions of a Duchess - Nicola Cornick

Confessions of a Duchess
Nicola Cornick

Format: Paperback - Released: 18/06/2010
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This begins ‘The Brides of Fortune’ trilogy, a sexy Regency romance laced with murder and dominated by an extraordinary new local tax law in Yorkshire – one that requires all unmarried women to forfeit half their wealth. Naturally a lot...

The Red and the Black - Stendhal

The Red and the Black
Stendhal

Format: Paperback - Released: 29/08/2002
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September 2010 Guest Editor Belle de Jour on Stendhal... I find his books are incredible for how dense they are with detail – it’s like the entire plot of any other novel, on each page. But in particular his heroes...

Bones of the Hills - Conn Iggulden

Bones of the Hills
Conn Iggulden

Format: Paperback - Released: 08/07/2010
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Genghis Khan has built a powerful empire but must battle to retain power over his territories. Testing his sons, he sends them out as generals of various divisions not only to lead the armies but to see which of them...

Emperor: The Death of Kings - Conn Iggulden

Emperor: The Death of Kings
Conn Iggulden

Format: Paperback - Released: 06/09/2004
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The second volume of this fantastic series follows Caesar who, having fled his enemies, is serving on a war galley. As he battles and earns respect he builds a following that will help him re-take Rome and become the powerful...

Emperor: The Field of Swords - Conn Iggulden

Emperor: The Field of Swords
Conn Iggulden

Format: Paperback - Released: 05/09/2005
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The third in this magnificent adventure series sees the crack in Caesar and Brutus’ friendship appearing and some of the possible reasons why former friends and colleagues turned. It’s history brought to life. Thrilling stuff, he’s a brilliant storyteller.

Emperor : The Gods of War - Conn Iggulden

Emperor : The Gods of War
Conn Iggulden

Format: Paperback (a Format) - Released: 07/08/2006
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The fourth and final volume of the life of Julius Caesar. History brilliantly recreated, full of high adventure. It is sad to see the end of the series but his next, also about an ancient warrior, should be brilliant too....

An Echo in the Bone - Diana Gabaldon

An Echo in the Bone
Diana Gabaldon

Format: Paperback - Released: 30/09/2010
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Once upon a recent time Claire stepped through some standing stones in Scotland and found herself in the Jacobean uprising. Six books ago she fell in love with Jamie and married him. Her big gift to him is her knowledge...

The Boleyn Inheritance - Philippa Gregory

The Boleyn Inheritance
Philippa Gregory

Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 08/05/2007
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Interestingly told from the point of view of three women, Anne of Cleves, Katherine Howard and the dreadful Jane Boleyn, this is the Tudor Court brought vividly to life again by a real pro. What a violent and frightening man...

Virgin Widow - England's Forgotten Queen - Anne O'Brien

Virgin Widow - England's Forgotten Queen
Anne O'Brien

Format: Paperback - Released: 21/05/2010
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June 2010 Debut of the Month. A great read and a great insight into how women were used as pawns in the scheme of things in the families who aspired to rule England...

The Last Kingdom - Bernard Cornwell

The Last Kingdom
Bernard Cornwell

Format: Paperback - Released: 06/06/2005
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You may be familiar with Richard Sharpe from his many books or from the television series. But Cornwell is a prolific writer, he has written on the American Civil War, the Arthurian period, the Druids and even Regency romantic adventure....